Iris

Greatest Song Ever: Iris

And I'd give up forever to touch you,
Cause I know that you feel the same somehow.
You're the closest heaven that I'll ever be,
And I don't want to go home right now.

And all I can taste is this moment,
And all I can breathe is your life,
And sooner or later it's over,
I just don't want to miss you tonight.

And I don't want the world to see me,
Cause I don't think that they'd understand.
When everything's made to be broken,
I just want you to know who I am.

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming,
Or the moment of the truth in your lies.
When everything feels like the movies,
Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive.

And I don't want the world to see me,
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand.
When everything's made to be broken,
I just want you to know who I am.

And I don't want the world to see me,
Cause I don't think that they'd understand.
When everything's made to be broken,
I just want you to know who I am.

And I don't want the world to see me,
Cause I don't think that they'd understand.
When everything's made to be broken,
I just want you to know who I am.
I just want you to know who I am.
I just want you to know who I am.
I just want you to know who I am.



I have to say this is one of the greatest songs of the 90's era. The Goo Goo Dolls made this song for the film "City of Angels" featuring Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage as an angel. Iris was the longest number one chartings on Billboard Hot 100 Airplay. The song got it’s name by John Rezenik (guitar/vocalist) when he found Iris DeMent (American Song writer). Not that romantic as the song is of course. Iris spent 31 weeks on Irelands hits and at the 41st Grammy Awards Iris received nominations for “Record of the Year” and “Pop Performance by a Duo or Group.” This song was written from Nicolas Cage’s character view from the movie. If you really listen to the lyrics you can hear some of it means meanings from the movie. For example “And I’d give up forever to touch you” in the movie Nicolas Cage can’t touch her, because he’s an angel and hear it means he’d give up being an angel just to live a short mortal life with her (Meg Ryan). There’s no doubt Iris was one of the greatest songs of the 90’s.

BOO!

Did you know there are different types of ghost? There are such things called anomalies, shadow people, apparitions, and etc.
SHADOW PEOPLE- are also called apparitions. Shadow people and ghost, however, are two different things. I will explain about the ghost later, but I had to point that out. They usually look like a shadow obviously hence the name “shadow people”, but it is distinct that “it” takes the shape of a person. They however don’t look like they wear modern day clothing, but cloak like features. They can have eyes and they are usually red (which is really scary). They way they move are supposedly really fast or jolty. Some people report it as dancing from wall to wall. They say these “things” are created by people with their stress, trauma, and etc. Another belief is they are created by a dimension that sometimes overlaps with our so we can see them. The third belief is that they are connected with UFO’s or gray aliens. A little far fetched huh? They’re not dangerous at all and they can appear in orbs which are little balls of light.
GHOST- is an apparition of a person similar to what they look like. They are usually in a place where they died, places where they have their belongings, or somewhere significant to them. A ghost can make noises; have an odor, apparition, and etc. They usually don’t know they are dead, because they die under traumatic conditions or highly emotional.
POLTERGEIST- is a demonic spirit or ghost that manifests itself by moving objects, making noise, assaulting people and animals, or all of those. They can move objects and ruin them, can interfere with telephone lines and electrical equipment, turning lights on and off, they can hit, kick, punch, and bit someone, and they can go as far as to sexually assaulting someone. Poltergeist activity starts on and off and can last over to several days to several months, even sometimes years. This usually happens when someone is around. This person is called an “agent”. People that usually have stress, schizophrenia, emotional stress, and etc.
HAUNTINGS- is a recording of the past on an environment like war or a house. These are played over and over and are always the same. They say the presence of a person can trigger this, but don’t get this word mistaken for people interacting with ghosts. We don’t know why this happens, but we think it happens because of an emotional or traumatic death.

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

HAUNTED HOSPITAL is the last thing you probably would want to visit. The Waverly Hills Sanatorium was a hospital that opened in 1926 because of the white death other wise known as tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a virus that travels by air and you get it in your lungs. If you have tuberculosis it basically attacked your lungs and would eat them away. The white death was a huge outbreak in the early 19th century and back in those times if you got it you were going to die. If you got it within 24 hours if you didn't turn yourself into Waverly Hills they would come and get you. There were many deaths in the hospital and patients knew that they were going to die. They didn't have a cure back then for it, so they went to as far as putting sand bags on people’s chest to try to solve it and sometimes even bloodier procedures like: deflating a portion of a lung, remove 2 to 3 ribs at a time so lung could expand, and the pneumthorax method . The hospital had lots of windows that they would set the patients by; they thought the sun and fresh air was good. Waverly Hills Sanatorium was closed in 1982 because of budgets. There is an estimate about 63,000 deaths in total, even though it was the most advanced hospital back then. Just because the hospital is closed doesn't mean there's life that doesn't still linger. There is another life than the human world. Waverly Hills Sanatorium has been on shows like "Ghost Hunters", "Most Haunted", "Scariest Places on Earth", and "Most Terrifying Places in America". The sanatorium has unexplained shadows, footsteps, doors that open, children laughing, screams, and etc. If you go there you can encounter with a little boy named Timmy. Timmy was a boy that was diagnosed with tuberculosis and was admitted in to the children's wing of the hospital. Timmy likes to interact with playing hide and seek and playing with balls such as rolling it back to you. In the same wing there have been reports of a woman with her wrists chained and bleeding as she is crying for help. There have been reports of a hearse outside of the hospital which leads to the story of the tunnel. When people died in the hospital they would throw them down a chute that lead in to a tunnel. This was so the patients at the time wouldn’t get discouraged. The tunnel was before used for the delivery of foods and needs. In the tunnel would encounter such things as “shadow people”, voices, screams, and unexplained footsteps. In the hospital there is a room that has a very sad story. Room 502 was one of the nurses head quarters. In 1928, the head nurse was only 29 years old and developed tuberculosis. Not only that she was pregnant and not married; seeing no other way out she hung herself. Now you can hear her crying. In 1932, in the same room another nurse jumped out of the window plummeting to her death and no one seemed to know why. On the third floor there is a little girl named “Mary” that plays with a leather ball and says disturbing things about “I have no eyes.” In the kitchen you can experience a man with a white coat on and pants. They say he’s an old employee of the Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Mostly about every floor is “haunted.” Fact or fiction, one thing is for sure I never want to know.

Room 502.

The Hydrogen Car

SO IT IS TOLD…. the way the economy is going one of the big American dealers is going to fall. Either that be Chrysler, GM, or Ford. The thing about this alternative car thing is GM created an alternative for gas to hydrogen. The way gas prices have been going it’ll go up again after the holidays and it’s bound to get up to $4 again. These cars can get 300 miles for around $1.62. The dealer ship that came up with this idea is GM and they betted $1,000,000,000 that they would have these out by 2009 and would be sold for $16,000. The way GM’s crisis with money right now is going they might not make it and for the fact other dealer ships got a hold of this idea and there are already hydrogen cars bought over on the west coast. There are 30 in California and there are already hydrogen gas pumps up. The way these cars are designed is there is this skate board figure that will be under you that has the engine under you and the hydrogen gas. On top there will be a big cap you can put on top of the skate board figure and you can change it if you want to. The interior can be designed anyway you want. There will be no steering wheel anymore but a steering wheel that you can pull forward to go and pull back to stop. They say gas is so bad for the world and that’s one of the reasons why we have Global Warming well this alternative with the hydrogen will burn up and turn it in to water (water purer than tap water out of the faucet). The car has passed all the safety inspections and if it were in an accident the car crumbles in a way so the passengers don’t get hurt. The bad things that can come with this car is if people aren’t strong enough to pull the steering wheel back and forth, glass comes over the car all in the front, because there’s not an engine in front anymore and if there were to be an accident the glass would shatter, and like the Hindenburg it was filled with hydrogen and it mysteriously burst in to flames and unfortunately your basically driving a bomb. The way things are going this car sounds really good to have. We’re not going to have the gas cars forever after all.

The KKK

“White Power,” is what you would here if you were near the KKK. KKK stands for Ku Klux Klan and they are a terrorist organization that opposes African Americans, Jews, and any other minorities. The KKK was created in 1865 after the civil war ended; it was created to restore white supremacy. The organization decreased between 1868 and 1870, and then finally Ulysses S. Grant ended all of it. Later in 1915 the KKK was found again and majorly grew after WW1. The violence started to raise there were a lot of lynching, beatings, attacks in public and houses, and even murders. Their symbol was burning the cross to intimidate the people.
The Klan decreased during the Great Depression times and fell during WW2. During the Civil Rights Movement the KKK was named out a lot and they were convicted of manslaughter and murders. They had a problem with what is called “The Jim Crow Laws” meaning separate, but equal. African Americans had every right to what whites had, but it had to be seperate. The KKK of course did everything they could to decrease this. The KKK started to decrease more in to the early 1990’s and still from this day there are over 40 groups of them left.
My concern is with Obama being president will this rise again? On the internet it says that the KKK has endorsed Obama and they said that they would rather vote for him than Hillary Clinton any day, but the funny thing is that is a rumor spreading all over the internet. Why would the KKK after 50 years start supporting an African American? There is a clan called “The Knight’s Party” lead by Thomas Robb says now the whites are the minority and they will do anything to protect white supremacy. There are also videos that say he will be assassinated if elected president. Have you noticed though that all the great presidents get assassinated; for example JFK, Lincoln, McKinley, and Garfield. There have already been rumors going around that some people were going to his campaign and had AK’s in the back ready to assassinate him. We could have all predicted this racial thing was going to happen, but it’s great to finally have a change in America having our first ever black president. America has came a long way from what it use to be and for all the people out there that have a problem with other diversities I feel really bad for you.

Outrages of Celebritys

Why is it that whenever celebritys get in trouble with the law they get away with it...? OR when they do get in trouble they can go to jail for a short amount of time and not have to serve the full sentence? Where as an ordinary person has to suffer and don't get off. One name of a celebrity that shows up alot is Paris Hilton...... She has been arrested multiple times for drunk driving, which is when she finally had to serve her full term. The funny thing is she got out for a little time, because she was having a hard time. Another person is Lindsey Lohan for drunk driving, but just like Paris she gets off easy. There are so many actors, singers, actresses, models, and etc. that get in trouble with the law all the time and get off easy. Normal American citizens never and will ever have it let go and slide by like they do? Why is this? The world is so crooked these days that it is sad... Take O.J. Simpson for example, he's convicted of killing his wife and a friend, I think, and there are so many clues that lead to the murder and he gets let off easy. A little over a year he gets convicted again for a felony, but this time it's I think a robbing.... A little strange huh? He gets let off again, but not too long ago he actually gets convicted of another heist.... Come on people it doesn't take a genious to figure this out? Now if this were a normal average everyday life person there is no way they would've gotten off the first conviction of the murder. This makes me realize that the world is so persuaded by money and wealth that it makes you feel so unsafe.

The Troubles of Christmas

Christmas is an awesome time of the year. There are cookies, presents, family time, and so much more. Christmas is especially a fun time when you are a kid, because as you get older it's not as fun anymore. The one thing about Christmas though, is they're trying to change it to happy holidays which I think it's bogus. It started out as the American tradition of saying Merry Christmas therefore I think it should stay that way. It's not fair for people from other countries to come over here and say it offends them. Well how about we go over to your country and say it offends us that you say Happy Holidays. Many countries have different ways of celebrating Christmas so why should we have to change how we celebrate it, because you don't like it. Christmas shouldn’t be how you say it that counts; it should be how you celebrate it that counts. Many countries celebrate it from traditions that date back to hundreds years ago, some spend the holiday on the beach and eating cold salad instead of turkey, some celebrate it for many days, some think magical things happen on Christmas Eve, some people celebrate it with festivals and parades. So I sit here and think why does it matter what we call it. We are all celebrating the same thing and that’s Jesus’ birthday. I think that people need to get over what it is called and start having fun. Christmas comes only once a year and we should all celebrate and quit worrying about stupid petty things

Accidents

Do you think car accidents have to deal with a certain age group or the cell phone issue? The funny thing is my mom tells me I'm an under experience driver if that's so why is it I haven't had any accidents and the accidents I almost do have are older people almost causing them. Car accidents usually happen when it’s 5 kilometers away from home and rarely happen on a vacation trip. When males say woman are the cause for accidents, they are wrong males cause twice as many accidents as female drivers plus they like to have big cars with big engines and the thing about big engines is that you are more likely to cause an accident with a big engine. 39% of crashes are just caused by alcohol and over 10,000 people die from car crashes each year. The most crashes happen between midnight and 3am. Pedestrians are actually at a greater risk than drivers. 14 kid pedestrians each year are killed by a school bus and it’s usually between 3pm and 4pm. The nationality fatality rate for pedestrians is 1.58 to 100,000. Now here’s what I was asking earlier about who causes the most accidents and its people from 16-20 years of age. The most accidents happen during the weekend and over 51% of them are fatal. The most common place to have an accident is in a park aid.

Evolution or Creation?

Before I just want to say I'm not trying to persuade anyone to believe that "this" conspiracy happened I'm just giving facts of the two topics and want to hear what you think. I don't want to offend anyone, and I'm not trying to. If you ask me I don't know what to believe? I believe in God, but then again the evolution thing is really close to. There are many conspiracies in the world, but they two main ones are evolution and creation. Evolution is traits inheritated and passed down, but there can be a change in some traits. The theory is supposedly man was made from the evolution of monkeys. The fact is that chimpanzees have 95.6% of our DNA. Now if you ask me thats a little creepy. Then there's the conspiracy of creation from God. Then again the thing is the bible has been re-written so many times. Evolutionist or the "scientist" believe that if we can't touch, hear, smell, or see the creator, then they cannot test the creator. They believe that they whole universe couldn't explode from nothing, therefore there's an scientific explanation for everything, but the thing is they haven't found anything to explain it Then we have Adam and Eve the first man and woman that were created. If you have never heard of the story it goes that Adam and Eve were to never eat off a special tree in the Eden Garden, well one day a snake came by "the devil" and convinced them to eat it. So they took a bit and the story goes God cursed all man from then on. Evolution started in Europe and later a man named Charles Darwin wrote a book about evolution and this started a big controversy with the church. As for creation everyone accepted it and it goes way back? There are many trials for this controversy like Daniel vs. Waters and The Butler Act and Monkey Scopes trail. To tell you the truth I don't think we will ever find out and if we do there will still be a big controversy.

The problem with obesity

There is so much obesity and America is the number one country with the most people who are obese. Obesity means when fat becomes so extensive that it starts affecting the health. The BMI (Body Mass Index) should be between 18.5-24.9 kg/m for a normal BMI. Overweight is between 25-29.9 kg/m. Most health problems that occur are cardiovascular disease, diabetes type 2 which is the worst one to have, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, types of cancer, and it can reduce your life expectancy. How you get obese is when you take in too much energy (food) then what your metabolism can handle and also with the lack of physical activity. Most people who are obese have it from a genetic, medical, or psychiatric condition. It has become a really bad problem now that you see younger children become obese. Most of it has to do with video games, instead of going outside to waste all their energy and working their intake they took in that day they sit inside and play video games all day long. A lot of it also has to do with fast food places. It is so convenient to just stop by on the way home or on your lunch break to a fast food place that no one is getting the nutrition they need instead they get all the fatty foods and no calcium, Vitamins, and etc. Now the statistics are 80% of offspring from two obese parents are obese versus 10% of normal weight offspring had normal weight parents. The medical part is some medicines can make you can weight. For example birth control, insulin, steroids, hormonal contraception, and etc. The psychiatric part is it is not a disorder it’s just an illness. How we can fix all this are a balanced diet and a physical exercise. But it's not that easy most of the time that means you has to manage your own calorie intake for the day and this is really hard for some people. You can also take drugs to maintain a weight loss. You can take a pill that absorbs fat or you can do surgery where they can remove part of your stomach so you can get fuller faster, but that can also be dangerous and can lead to health problems to. So what I would stick to is the nutrious diet and exercise, because it is the most affective way to lose weight. Obesity has become a problem in the U.S. no doubt about it.

World Hunger

What's funny is there are so many people who have nice things, have a house over their head, have food and water and etc. while there are so many other kids who are starving. It's sad because most kids who do have these values abuse and don't realize how blessed they are. There are kids who would kill to have the things we do. When you see on the commercials people who are starving and they ask to give money; most people don't even stop to really think about it. Put yourself in their positions, if you were starving wouldn't you want someone to give you something. Poverty is such a terrible thing, and most people sometimes don't have that choice they are just born in to poverty. What if the world didn't have to suffer this? Sitting here trying to trace back to where everything started and wondering if it started with the first person? Wouldn't it be nice to give people food and clothing and shelter, but not even enough money could do that. It's not fair how some people can't help that they are born in to it and have to suffer. Even thinking about it, it is really hard to come up with any solutions on how to solve this. There could be the solution of just not having money anymore so people could survive, but then again we do need that to hold some structure in life. So what can we do? Alot of people die everyday from this problem alot of it is from malnutrition. There are two types of malnutrition micronutrient deficiency and protein energy malnutrution. More than 50 million people suffer from this and the number keeps on growing. Most kids who suffer malnutrition can suffer up to 160 days of being sick plus may cause a life times of problems. The funny thing is the world DOES produce enough food to feed everyone, so if these people suffer and we have enough food to feed them why don't we? Every 3.6 seconds someone dies from hunger and about 15 million children die every year. Race has a big part to do with it to 46% African American, 40% are Latino, and only 16% of whites starve. Most of the starvation is in Europe. Don't you think this is a problem. It would be nice to solve this, but reality is it will never happen, but it would be nice to take measures to try to reduce the statistics.

The Economy

So I sit here and wonder what's going to happen with the economy. Are we going to have another Great Depression... I don't know what will happen, but it's really scary and already millions of people have lost thousands out of the bank. I haven't pulled anything out of my bank because I think it's safe, but what happens supposedly is when the bank is going to close they have people's companies that own money to the bank, they take all their money and foreclose the company on them which doesn't access money to the company so they're done. Now think of that as a chain linking problem.... ya I know our whole country starts to shut down. And the whole presidential race right now scares me...! I think that if McCain wins the nomination I kind of fear that our country will keep going the way it is..... The bail out announcement that Bush just made about giving peoples tons of money so the banks don't foreclose on them; Everyone knows that they are just going to do it again! To be in politics and deal with this kind of stuff would make me want to pull my hair out not only that but if something goes wrong you get blamed for it.... Whatever happens to this country I hope it only gets better, because another thing we don't need is the economy going down!

The New Blog

This is my new blog and mostly is going to be based on things thats on my mind, thoughts, and mostly topics on the world today! So I hope that you enjoy this blog and have fun!!!